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VOL. XVII.—NO. 2i.
BUSINESS CABDS.
J^OBB COSKLLS,
BARBERS AND HAIR DRESSERS,
At their new Tonsorial Parlors. Shower and Hot
Baths. We hSTe two ftr»t-claas bath-rooms.
Basement Dunkelmann's block, Main street,
Aastin, Minn.
EN'TISTRY,
DR. P. B. PECK
Hu opened an ofSee in Mrs. Wright's konse, first
vorth of the Davidson House, on east side of
street, where he is prepared to do all kinds of
work in dentistry, anil solicits a share of public
patronage.
N. WHEAT, M. D.,
JIOM(EOPA TJIIC PHYSICIAN SURGEON
Special attention (riven to the diseases of women
and children. Office and residence opposite
Congregational chorch, corner St. Paul and Mill
streets, Aastin, Mower connty, Minn.
QKMA3ZO ALLEN.
JUDGE OF PROBATE,
Attorney at Law and Real Estate Agent. Col­
lections made and Taxes paid. Office in Court­
house, Aastin, Minnesota. 39-tf
rjUlOS. PHILLIPS, M. D.,
MOSHEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
Has permanently located in Austin. Calls in city
or country promptly attended to at all hours.
Office and rooms in Scblender's block, first door
north of Mower County Bank. JSC" Electric
Oaths given at the office.
W. ALLEN, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
office over Soiner's ptore, Austin, Minneeota.
Office hours from 9 to 11 a. m. and from 3 to 5
p. m.
M. GREEN MAN",
A TTORNE .1T LA
Will practice in the courts of record and the t".
S. court*. Office in Schleuder'n block. Main
street, Aastin, Minn. 40-ly
JOHNSON A PIERCE,
A TTORNE YS .1 LA I!',
Aaxtln, Minn. Practice In all the court* of the
Htute. Prompt attention given to collecting.
Office over Duakelniann'* etore. juniO
J^YMAN D. BAIKD,
A TTORNE AT LA «*,
Real Estate, Insurance and Collection Atrent.
Office, front room,second floor,over Hall West's
store, Anctin, Minnesota.
AFAYETTE FRENCH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Aastin, Minn. Collections and oth^r hiifiness
attended to carefully and promptly. Agent of
the .Etna and other Fire Innnrance Companies'.
Office over C. W. Taylor's iitore. jnn-D
B.CRANE,
A TTORNE A LA W,
Real Ewtate and Collection Agent. Taxes' paid
for non-resident*. t#""ofllce, sccond floor of
Pnnkelmftnn'a new block. Main street. 19-tf
M. CAMERON,
ATTORNEY AT LA II',
And Real Entatc Agent. Collections made and
taxes paid.
£1 II. JOHNSON, M. D., C. M.,
(Mitrrftmor to Dr. A. Mtcilonnhl.)
Graduate of McOill College, Montreal, late As
sisUint Surgeon In Montreal General Hospital.
Office over Clemmer & Pooler's drug store. Calls
attended day and night.
JJAILWAY HOUSE,
HORROR IN COX.,
Proprietors. Rates, $2.00 per day. Goed Sample
Rooms up town. Guests carried to and from
the city free of charge, t'p town connected by
telephone at Clemmer Pooler's. Austin, Minn.
JJED CEDAR MILLS.
J. (i REG
E
0
SON,
Manufacturer and Wholesale Doaler in the best
brands of Grocers' and Bakers' Flour. Also all
kinds of Mill Feed for sale at his store on Main
street, Austin, Minn., and at the mill, two miles
south of the city.
LLEN M. FAIRBANKS, M. D.
Office and residence, corner West Main and
Maple streets, opposite Public School Building,
Austin, Minn. At home until 0 a. m. and frcin
18 to 3 p. m.
j^VERY & Jl'DSON,
DENTISTS,
AUSTIN, MINN.
Office over Dorr &
Wold's drug store.
ItGAN TUNING.
The undersigned is prepared to do Organ
Tuning and Repairing. All work done in the
best manner possible, and fully warranted.
The best of references furnished. At Donovan's
furniture s£ore, one door east of Oscar Ayer's.
O. T. MILLS.
SOCIETIES.
JjllDKUTY LODGE, No. TO, A. F. A A. M.
JL The regular communications of this
if lodge are held in Masonic Hall, Austin,
Minnesota, on the .lir.it and thirtl Wed­
nesday evenings of each month.
JOSEPH ADAMS, W. M.
L. D. Bxinn, Secretary.
OYAL ARCH CHAPTER, NO. 11.
The Stated convocations of this Chapter
are held in Masonic Hall. Austin. Minnesota,
on the ttcoml and fourth Friday evenings
of each month.
EUGENE WOOD, M. E. n.
F. I. CRAXK, Secretary.
gT. BERNARD COMMANDERY, K. T. NO. 13
I I Meets first Monday evening of each
month at Masonic Hall.
EUGENE WOOD, E. C.
G. L. CASK, Recorder.
O. O. F.
The regular meetings of Austin
'Lodge, No. 30, are held in their hall
every Tuesday evening. Odd Fel­
lows from other jurisdictions, whose business
may lead them to Austin, are cordially invited to
visit us. W. II. BULLOCK, N. G.
O. L. GIBBONS, Secretary.
O. G. T.,
AUSTIN LODGE NO. 107, 0. G. T.,
Meets every Monday evening in Odd Fellows'
Ilall, corner Main and Mill streets. Strangers
stopping in city belonging to this order are cor­
dially invited.
WILSON BEACH, W. C. T.
MRS. O. SLOCCM. Secretary.
JEWELRY.
G. S
ghleudrr
IS AUSTIN'S
PIONEEPL!
DXAX.BR IX
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
Silver-Plated Ware, ete.
fVCallon him and look over hia elegant
stock an Main street.
MOWER
NOTES OF THE TIMES.
DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES cel­
ebrated his 76th birthda?, August 29th.
THOMAS WENTWOKTH HIGGINS is to
prepare a biography of "H. H-," the
late Helen Hunt Jackson.
TNE next general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church is to be
held at New York City in 1886.
THE spendthrift King Louis of Ba­
varia, has been adjudged a bankrupt,
and a guardian has been appointed to
take charge of his affairs.
DR. NEWMAN, lecturing at Chautau­
qua on General Grant compared him to
Wellington and declared he possessed
one of the greatest intellects the age
has ever produced.
THE backbone of summer seems to
be pretty weak in the halcyon east. In
the last week of August frosts were re­
ported in Virginia, and Pennsylvania
had the luxury of a snow storm.
A TRAIN of twenty cars laden with
438,000 pounds of wool has been for­
warded from Portland, Oregon, to
Philadelphia, being the largest rail
shipment ever made from the Pacific
coast.
MR GLADSTONE took a walk of eigh­
teen miles a day or two ago. What­
ever may be the matter with the re­
nowned Premier's vocal organs,
there seems to be abundant vigor in his
legs.
A CIVIL service examination is to
take place at Philadelphia begining
September 7th. Over one thousand
applications are already on lile for
clerkships and letter-carriers in the
city post-oftiee.
IN Jefferson County, Keutiieky, there
has been recently discovered a large
bed of silieious earth, possessing a pe­
culiar and valuable property used for
polishing metals. The only other de­
posit known to exist in the country is in
New Hampshire.
THE steamship Etruria made her
last trip from Liverpool to New York
in six days one hour and twenty-five
minutes. For twenty-four consecutive
hours of the time she ran twenty miles
an hour, something never before done
by a ship.
''I WAS never exactly buried alive,''
said an old clerk, recounting his ex­
periences, but I once worked a week in
a store that did not advertise. When I
came out my head was almost as white
as you now see it. Solitary confine­
ment did it.
THE International Geological Con­
gress, whose meeting was postponed
last year owing to the epidemic of chol
eroin southern Europe, began at Berlin,
September 28th its third session, un­
der the honorary presidency of Prof.
H. Von Deehen.
MR. BRADLAUgn has issued a cam­
paign manifesto to his constituency in
Northampton and urges their adoption
of the course pursued in Middlesex in
returning John Wilkes, until for very
shame he was
accorded
his rights and
his seat in the House of Commons.
THERE is only one October state this
year, Ohio, where the election takes
place on the second Tuesday of the
month. In November, Connecticut,
Iowa. Maryland, Massachusetts, Mis­
sissippi, New Jersey, New York, Pen
sylvauia and Virginia hold state elec­
tion.
II. B. CLAFFIN & co., the New York
merchants, are the authority for the
statement that dry goods of all sorts
are active and strong, and the report
of the trade from principal Western
and Southern points are of a highly en­
couraging character, the fall trade
having started up vigorously. Another
advance has been made in cotton
goods, including white and brown and
plaids in at New York.
THE Waltham Free Press, with im­
passioned diction repels the accusation
that the women of the present day are
idle in comparison with their grand­
mothers. "Blessyou gentlemen." says
the Waltham defender, "the wives of
nine out of ten laboring men work
more hours a da}" than
3011
do, and do
far more than your grandmothers
thought of doing or could have done.
The trouble is they are doing too much.
They become old when the bloom of
youth should still be upon them. They
go to bed tired and wake up in the
morning to get your breakfast nnre
freshed."'
THE execution at Duluth, on Friday,
makes the seventh event of the kind,
that has transpired in Minnesota. The
first was of an Indian Yu-ha-zee, De
eember 81, 18o4, who murdered a Ger­
man woman near St. Paul, where he
met the capital penalty. The second
was that of Mrs. Annie Bilanski. an
American woman who poisened her
husband, a Pole, at St Paul, March 23,
1860. The third took place at Albert
Lea. where Henry Kriegler, who mur­
dered Nelson Broughton, Sept 6, 1855,
was hanged March 1, 1861. Dec. 24,
1862, thirty-eight Indians were hung
upon one scaffold at Mankato, making
the fourth. The fifth was the execu­
tion of two Indians at Fort Snelling, in
1865, for murders committed during the
outbreak of 1862. The sixth took place
at St. Peter, March 6, 1868, Andreas
Roeseh being hanged for murder of a
boy. Joseph Saurer. Sept. 5, 1867, in
Nicollet County. For about a quarter
of a century capital punishment had
been abolished, but the legislature re­
stored it in 1888. The execution of
Waisenen August 28th, is the first one
occurring under the new law.
HISTORY OF A WEEK.
The chief of the bureau of statistics at
Washington, reports the total value of ex­
ports of domestic cattle and hogs, and of
beef, pork and dairy products, as follows:
July, 1885, *8,480,579 July, 1884,180,278,049
month ending July SI, 1885, $56,904,369
month ending Joly 31,18&4, $54,411,786 beef
and pork products for nine months ended
July 31, 1885, $67,706,092 beef and pork
products for nine months ended Jnly31,
1884, $65,570,360 dairy products for three
months ended Jnly 31,1885,
$4,031,71*5 dairy
products for three months ended Joly 31,
1884, $5,364,560. The total values of the ex­
ports of breadstnffs from the United States
were as follows: July, 1885, $8,714,305
July, 1884, $12,371,754 seven months ended
July 31, 1885, $85,558,'J82 seven months
ended July 31,1884, $80,546,131.
A horrible series of murders transpired
at Johnson City, Blanco county, Texas, on
Monday. Al. Lockie, shot his brother and
his wife, bis step-son's wife, two men named
Stoke* and Michelsoa, hi* own dangbter, a
young lady, when his cartridges being ex­
hausted he
stabbed to death Mrs. Brunswick.
He attempted to kill his wife bat she escaped.
In all eight persons were murdered and
twenty children orphaned. Lockie finally
cut his own throat.
President Cleveland is now camping out
at Willis pond, one of the most inaccessible
spots in the Adirondack mountains, being a
good three days' journey from the nearest
railroad depot. He has as companions,
Dr. 8. B. Warcl and Mr. Bacon, of New
York. The President was ill during the
first few days he was in camp, but is uow
looking well and says he feels very hearty.
The Sullivan-McCaffrey fight at Cincin­
nati was given to Sullivan, as he made the
most '"points." McCaffrey stood up for
six rounds and desired to fight to a finish.
He was carried off the gronnds on the
shoulders of his friends. In the evening a
challenge was issued to Sullivan to tight
McCaffrey with bare knnckles to a finish,
$100 forfeit money being deposited.
Indian Agent Stottsheimer of the South­
ern Ute agency at Ignacio, Colo., has sent
in his resignation. Gen. Miles will recom­
mend that an army officer be appointed to
take charge of affairs at the agency, and it
is thought President Cleveland will carry
out the recommendation.
A freshet in Girty's run, August :25th,
caused by a cloud burst near Evergreen,
Pa., Hooded twenty-two houses, washed
away thirteen railroad and township
bridges, and drowned a large lot of live
stock. The damage will reach many thous­
ands of dollars. No lives were lost.
At Sullivan's Island, a number of houses
were blown away, the Brighton hotel dam­
aged $30,000, the new Ashley river bridge
swept away, four vessels wrecked, and the
Island in the maiu submerged. At Savan­
nah and other points of the same section
very little damage was done.
Albert D. Swan, a prominent and wealthy
citizen of Lawrence, Mass., was shot and
killed by Henry R. Goodwin, at 10:30
Thursday morning. Goodwin was angry
with Swan because the latter did not ad­
vance him money to push an impracticable
telephone patent.
Ex-Minister to Hayti, J. M. Langston,
(a colored Ohio man) has filed with the
court of claims a suit for $7,666 back pay.
The salary is $7,500, but owing to the failure
of Congress to appropriate that sum for
over three years he was paid but $5,000 per
annum.
Rumors prevail that Henry Ward
Beecher has determined to abandon the
Plymouth church pulpit about Christmas
time, when he will have finished his course
of sermons on evolution, although he may
preach there occasionally while life lasts.
Patents were issued Tuesday to the fol­
lowing Minnesota inventors: Joseph M.
King, Rochester, wild pea and oat separa­
tor Tracy M. Metcalf, St. Paul, ticket
holder Ole A. Sate, Jackson, bolt cutter
Augustus R. Young, Stillwater, capstan.
The Ohio Prohibition committee have
sent a challenge to the Democratic State
committee for a debate between Dr.
Leonard, their candidate for Governor, and
Gov. Hoadley on the question of Prohibi­
tion vs. License of the Liquor Traffic.
A very heavy thunderstorm, accompan­
ied by a gale,prevailed throughout Ne^ Eng­
land, Monday. It was exceedingly severe
in Boston and the vicinity, and in the sub­
urbs many houses and other buildings
were damaged by lightning.
A train on the Natchez, Jackson and
Columbia railroad went through the Big
Bayou Pierre (Miss.) bridge, Thursday
morning, killing three men, fatally injur­
ing two more, and more or less seriously
injuring several others.
At Milwaukee, Wednesday, at the races
of the Wisconsin Horse Breeders' Associa­
tion, Laura Bell, owned by Z. B. Marrett,
of St. Paul, with a record of and
valued at $2,000, fell dead on the track after
going a heat in a race.
Bishop Cargrove, of Iowa, has selected
Father Smith as temporary successor to
Vicar General Brazil, deceased. The exec­
utors of Father Brazil report property
valued at $240,000 left to the church, mostly
real estate.
The commissioner of Indian affairs has
directed the purchase of 12,250 bushels of
barley for the use of the Indians at the San
Carlos agency, Arizona, there being an
ambition among the Indians to brew their
own beer.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State Con­
vention was held at Harrisburg, August
2tfth and nominated Conrad B. Day for
state treasurer. The platform adopted
strongly approves the Cleve and administra
tion.
On Tuesday Theodore Frelinghuysen,
son of the late ex-secretary of state, was
married at Newport, R. I., to Miss Alice
Coates, daughter of James Coates, of the
firm of J. & P. Coates of Scotland.
At Mayport, Florida, August 25th, a vio­
lent storm prevailed on the Atlantic, houses
being blown down. At Ferndina great
damage was done to buildings, boats and
shipping. Ten lives were lost there.
At Charleston, S. C.. on the morning of
the 25th, inst. a cyclone visited the city, un
roofing one fourth of the houses, demolish­
ing church spires, wharves and warehouses.
Loss estimated at $1,000,000.
The comptroller of the treasury finds that
$34,500 in salaries has been paid out to va­
rious officials connected with the court of
commissioners of the Alabama claims
without warrant.
On Monday ex-Gov. Reuben E. Fenton
died suddenly while at his desk in the First
National bank at Jamestown, N. Y., of
which he was president. Heart disease
was the cause.
Civil Service Commissioner Thoman left
Washington August 29th, to examine can­
didates for office in Wisconsin, Dakota,
Oregon and Washington Territory.
Chang Tsoo Ju, the Chinese minister at
Washington, has iwrigned owing to ill
health, and Yring Huan has been drng
nated to succeed him.
There Is a corner in August cotton in New
York, the shorts badly squeezed, there be­
ing a jump of the August twenty-eight
pointB at one time.
Two policemen were shot and killed at
midnight at Geneva, HI., Thursday. Those
who committed the deed have not been dis­
covered.
910,000,000 were paid out for pensions
during August, and the decrease of the
public debt for that month will be less than
usuaL
At Independence, Kansas, a man 82 years
old has been sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary for horse stealing.
A thunder storm occurring August 25th,
damaged the tobacco crop in the vicinity of
Hartford, Conn., to the extent of $150,000.
The Chicago & Northwestern railroad has
declared a dividend of 1% per cent, on pre­
ferred stock, payable Sept. 25.
The Knights of L»abor have been ordered
to raise the siege against the Wabash and
Missouri Pacific roads.
Ex U. S. Senator Edgar 8. Co wen, of
Virginia, died at his residence at Greens
burg, August29th.
John Sherman opened the Republican
side of the Ohio campaign on Wednesday
at Mi. Gilead.
Gov. Hoadley will open the "Ohio Cam­
paign for the Democrats, at Hamilton,
Sept. 5th.
Five thousand people attended the fun­
eral of Ex-Gov. Fenton at Jamestown, N.
Y., August 29.
President Cleveland will not return to
Washington until September 15th.
RECENT APPOINTMENTS.
The following Iowa postmasters were ap­
pointed Thursday. At Kingston, James W.
Gilson Gravitz. Samuel Robinson, Morn­
ing Sun, W. A. McCormick Winfield, John
W. Hanna Pleasant Grove, James P.
Minard Danville, Alice M. Wright Bona­
parte, W. A. Packer Brighton, Thomas
Buck Steamboat Rock, Henry Suckins
Estherville, Peter Johnson.
August '25 the acting postmaster general
removed sixty-seven Republican postmast­
ers and appointed one hundred Democrats,
among whom were the following: Iowa,
Macedonia, Marion Ashley Calmar, W.
L. Bass. Minnesota, Heron Lake, E. B.
Briggs, vice Force resigned. Dakota, Iro
quoise, C. F. Zimmerman, vice Umphreys,
resigned Egan, H. E. Heron, vice Lan
ning resigned.
The following postmasters were ap­
pointed August 2»th: Dakota—Stanton,
Mrs. L. A. Frazer Iowa—Western College,
Jacob Kauffmann Ossian, James Malloy.
THE OLD WORLD,
The Paris La France states that all
Spanish officers now on furlough have been
ordered to rejoin their regiments. The
same paper is authority for the statement
that several large Spanish mercantile
houses have canceled all their outstanding
orders for German goods. The members of
the Spanish colony at Paris are indignant
at Germany's occupation of the Carolines
and protest against what they call Bis­
marck's usurpation and perfidy.
It is stated at Berlin that Emperor Wil­
liam of Germany, through a feeling of sym­
pathy with King Alfonso, has made a per­
sonal interference in order to obtain a
settlement of the Caroline affairs favorable
to Spain. Firms in Wurzbnrg and Elber
feld have received notices from commercial
houses in Spain severing business connec­
tions with them.
The Borsen Courier has a dispatch from
Constantinople which says that Russia is
making overtures for an alliance with
Turkey, holding out as an inducement a
prospect of Turkey's recovering possession
of the Balkan passes and fortresses. The
Turkish ministers, the dispatch says, are
divided as to the acceptance of the pro­
posal.
The Irish agricultural statistics show that
there are 5,000,000 acres of land under crop
in Ireland, an increase of 81,000 over the
acreage of 1S84 that there are 10,250,000
acres of grass land, a decrease of 200,000
aores, and that bog, barren, and mountain
land has increased 27,000 acres.
The American minister to Belgium de­
clines to interfere in the case of Chateau
nef, who was arrested at Brussels in con­
nection with the murder of Mdlle. Menetret
in Paris, and who claims to be a natural­
ized American citizen.
A physician who attended Mr. Gladstone
Says that his complaint is of a chronic na­
ture and not susceptible to any radical
cure, and that he can never recover his or­
atorical power.
A British man-of-war has left Aden to
occupy Ambo, situated on Tajourah bay,
east Africa. The object is to anticipate
the occupation of the place by France.
Several thousand unemployed workmen
assembled at Hackney, England, and
passed resolutions demanding that the gov­
ernment assist them to emigrate.
The belief is gaining ground that Gen.
Gordon escaped from Khartoum and made
bis way to the equator. A new party is
shortly to start out to find him.
The wheat crop for this year in Italy is
reported in an official document to the de­
partment of state, to be about 20 per cent
less than the average crop.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin will give a
banquet at the Mansion house next Tues­
day to Mr. Parnell and his Irish colk "vgues
in the house of commons.
John W. Foster, United States minister
to Spain, made his adieu to King Alfonso
August 20th. Mr. Foster is about to return
to the United States.
August 25, a native craft, loaded with
pilgrims was wrecked in the gulf of Aden,
and 100 of its passengers were drowned.
Jndge Stalls, successor to William Wal­
dorf Astor as United States minister to
Italy, arrived at Rome on the 23th of
August.
The negotiations between England and
Prussia are about completed and trouble
has been averted.
496& new cases of cholera, and 1,547 deaths
from cholera were reported in all of Spain
Wedensday.
Germany has announced a willingness to
arbitrate with Spain the Caroline islands
sovereignty.
A terrible flood in China drowned 10,000
people and a greater number are starving
to death.
Farquharaon, the defaulting manager of
the Monster bank has been traced to Spain.
THE DULUTH EXECUTION.
The execution of John Waisenen, at Du­
luth on Friday, for the murder of Joseph
Farley at Tower, Minn., Nov. 20,1884, is the
only instance in which the death penalty
has been enforced in Minnesota, since 1868.
The event attracted a large gathering at
Duluth, but the day was without incident.
The execution took place in an enclosure
over 30 feet high, to which but few were
admitted, and those mostly visiting Sheriffs.
The condemned man was *23 years
of age and leaves a wife and one child
about two years of age. He made a full
confession of the crime. The trap was
sprang at 3.03
p. m., and the fall of four
feet broke his neck and in ten minutes he
was pronounced dead. John Norland was
engaged in the crime and committed suicide
in the jail soon after the arrest of the two
murderers. Waisenen's confession is as
follows: "Norland and myself were at
work for Joseph Farley. We knew he had
some money, and, as we were hard up,
Norland advised that we ldll him and take
it. He lived alone in a little shanty on the
Iron Range railroad. We were at the shanty
and as Farley was going through the door
Norland said to me now was my chance.
I struck Farley a blow on his head from
behind with a piece of hard wood—not a
very large club. He fell and though he
was not killed instantly and breathed, he
never spoke a word. Then Norland put a
rope around his neck. I shoved him under
a bench with my foot. Norland then set
fire fo the shanty and hitched the horses
and.f started away. Norland took his
modby and watch and gave me $30. I
don't know how much money John got.
Farley was killed at once, and I didn't
hardly know what I had done. We both
drank a large amount of whisky to make
our nerves steady. I was not mad at Far­
ley—never had a cross word with him. I
am sorry, but I am not afraid. I will go to
heaven. I have been five years America
from Finland. I lived four years in Michi­
gan. I kept saloon a little while in Duluth.
My father, mother and one sister live at
Nora, Hamlin county, Dak. I have not
seen them, but get letters from them."
IOWA REPUBLICANS.
After a tw6 days' session the Iowa Repub­
lican state convention on Thursday, nom­
inated Senator Larrabee for governor, Cap­
tain Hull for lieut. governor, on the first bal­
lot, and nominated Judge Beck who has al­
ready served eighteen years on the Supreme
court bench, and Mr. Akers for his second
term as superintendent of schools.
Mr. Larrabee is a banker and miller at
Clermont, and has served eighteen years in
the legislature. Capt Hull has been secretary
of state for sixteen years and had other of­
fices.
The first, second and third planks of the
platform attack the Southern policy, so
called, of the Democratic party the fourth
and fifth are devoted to pensious and the
labor question the sixth discourses free
trade seventh approves civil service
reform ninth demands the public domain
for actual settlers tenth opposes any
changes of the currency and finance and
favors revision of the patent laws: eleventh
regards Prohibition as worthy of further
trial twelfth, favors legislative railroad
regulation thirteenth, asks for further
state and national legislation regarding
the cattle plague fourteenth disfavors
taking corporation litigation out of state
courts fifteenth favors the establishment of
an Iowa Soldiers' Home. Sixteenth condoles
the nation and family of Gen. Grant upon
the death "of one of the greatest and best
men known in history."
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
At Des Moines, Iowa, August 25, Rev.
John T. Brazie, late vicar general of the di­
ocese of Iowa, died after a brief illness of in­
flammation of the heart. He was one of
the most prominent and best esteemed cit­
izens of the state, and the church loses one
of its strongest pillars. He was born in
County Clare, Ireland, in 1827, educated at
Montreal and ordained at Wheeling, W. Va.,
at the age of twenty-four. He was for one
year vicar general of Virgina. Ho went to
Iowa in 1861, and was acting vicar general
of the Dubuque diocese until the receut di­
vision.
The Chippewa Indian whosnceeded to his
fathers name, Hole:in-the-Day, but not to
his prominence and chieftainship, is ac­
cused of being an informer upon those who
sell liquor to the Indians. He and another
Indian were dragged from a Northern Pa­
cific train on the night of the 24th, while
the train was at Crow Wing Station, and
taken to the woods and fearfully pounded.
It is feared that Hole-in-the-Day will not
recover. He was on his way to St. Paul at
the time, to testify against some liquor
sellers.
The burglars, Fred Ell wood and Joe
Wilson by name, who visited the residences
of J. F. Oakes and W. R. Merriam at St.
Paul, have been caught at New York. Mr.
Merriam's scarf pin was found on one of
the men and Toledo and Detroit pawn tickets
for his diamond collar button and shirt
stud. It is expected the men will be
brought back to St. Paul for trial. Mr.
Oakes is still confined to his residence by
the injuries he received from the burglars'
assault upon him.
The third annual fair of the Dodge Coun­
ty Joint Stock Agricultural and Mechani
cal society will be held at Dodge Center
Sept. 15, 16 and 17. Hon. Oliver Gibbs, Jr.,
commissioner of agriculture for Minnesota
at the world's fair in New Orleans, will de­
liver the annual address Sept. 17. Dodge
county took half of the agricultural pre­
miums awarded the state at the world's
fair last winter.
A party of surveyors commenced a few
days ago to run a railroad line from Crook
gton to Leech Lake. It is surmised that
this is a movement on the part of the St.
Paul ft Manitoba road, to head off the
Brainerd & Northwestern enterprise, and
that the Manitoba company intends to
build from Crookston to Duluth, and ab
sorb the Duluth & Winnepeg land grant.
The visit of Gov. Pierce, of Dakota, to
Washington was a booming success. In
two days he filed the report of Dakota'^
census, showing the population to be
416,000 souls, with 82,700 farms, and secured
Secretary Lamar's requisition for $36,000
the government portion ot the expense of
taking the census.
A Fargo report of the 25th inst. says that
the Northern Pacific Elevator company at
several stations in this vicinity have taken
in about 75,000 bushels of new wheat, most
of which graded No. 1 hard, but little is
threshed yet. The indications show a good
quality, but lighter yield than was expected.
At Lake Benton, Minn., Tuesday forenoon
Capt. J. T. Jacobson, with his nephew,
John Olsen, went out in a small sailing
yacht for a pleasure ride. The yacht cap­
sized and both persons were drowned.
Jacobson was 60 years of age, his nephew
22.
Spring Valley has appointed the follow­
ing delegates to the River Improvement
convention at St. Paul: B. F. Fanner, E.
G. H. Adams, C. M. Clark, H. C. Van
Leaven. The delegation will favor CoL
Piatt B. Walter for river commissioner.
Litchfield, Minn., has elected the follow­
ing delegates to the river convention, to
meet in.St. Paul, Sept. 3: Hon. Williani M.
Campbell, Hon. W. H- Greenleaf, Hon.
J. Flynn, Hon. Andrew Nelson and Mayor
Howard.
R. C. Jefferson of St Paul is stocking tip
two fine farms near Red Wing—one in
Cherry Grove and the other in Vassa,
with the finest grades of stock, intending
to make model stock farms of them.
The census returns from forty-four
counties of Wisconsin show a net gain of
AUSTIN, MOWER COUNTY, MINN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1885. TERMS: Two Dollars Per Annum, in Advanee.
population since the United States census
of 1880 of 168,187. The total gain in the
state will probably reach 200,000.
Second Assistant Post Master General A.
Knott, on a tour of inspection to the
Pacific coast, via the northern Pacific rail­
road, reached St. Paul August 39th. He
returns east by way of Denver.
The western part of Cass and Barnes
counties, Dakota, have united in organis­
ing an agricultural association, and will
hold a three days' fair at Tower City the
last week in September.
Indians at Devils Lake agency have raised
GO,000 bushels of wheat this year. The wheat
will be manufactured into flour at the agen­
cy mill, and turned over to the government
at $2 per hundred
A $20,000 fire occurred at Fergus Falls on
the 26th, breaking out in the Armory at 3
a. m., supposed to havifr^originated from a
•cigar stump thrown awSy at the evening
drill.
The Minnesota and Northwestern R. R.
has made a contract with the Iowa Central
R. R. whereby the trains of that road will
run into St. Paul, December 1st.
The yield of grain in the vicinity of
Grand Forks, Dak., proves to be far below
the average. Along the Red river the
quality of the grain is better.
The Washington county fair opened at
Stillwater, on Wednesday, under favorable
auspices, Hon. J. B. Brisbin making the
opening address.
Louis Tice, in jail at Fergus Falls for
stealing money from the meat market of
Jacob Frey, hung himself with a strip of
blanket, Aug. 26.
At Minneapolis, J. H. Huntington is held
to the Grand Jury for refusing entertain­
ment to colored people at his Sixth Avenue
hotel.
George Emery, of St. Croix Falls, Wis.,
and another man, name unknown, were
killed by lightning near Mapleton, Dak.
The Minneapolis and St. Louis R. R. are
uow running their trains into St. Paul over
the tracks of tho Omaha line.
Dr. Lansing Cole, the father of Hon. Gor­
don E. Cole, of Faribault, died Aug. 28tb at
Cheshire, Mass., aged 82 years.
Census returns from every county of
Minnesota show a population of 1,118,486, a
gain of 337,713 in live years.
A horse thief who has been operating iu
Missouri, Iowa aud Minnesota has been
captured in Des Moines.
Tho supervising architect of the treasury
has approved the specifications for the new
Minneapolis building.
St. Paul's lacrosse team was beaten by
the Toronto boys, the latter winning three
games out of five.
There will be 2,000 men at work on the
Wisconsin Central extension to Chicago in­
side of a week.
Whilo attempting to arrest burglars. De­
tective Uleasou of Minneapolis was^-shot in
the hand.
Hon. C. F. Kindred, of Brainerd, has sent
his fiue horses to the State Fair grouuds.
Rochester. Minn., had a light frost
August, 2ti. No damage.
THE MARKETS.
ST. PAUI.
Wheat—fto. 1 hard, 84c bid August. 84c
bid September, 85c bid October, 84c, bid
No. 2 hard, 80c bid regular, 70c bid.
Corn No. 2, 43c. bid.
Oats No. 2 mixed, 26c. bid, 28c asked.
No. 2 white, 31c. bid.
Barley No. 2, 55c. bid.
Rye No. 2, 4e. bid,
Baled hay, $8.00 asked timothy $10.00.
Dressed beef, choice steers aj^'c. 9%
veal, 7 8 c.
Butter, extra 16c. bid, 18 c. asked.
Cheese, 7 9c.
Eggs, extra llkTc. bid, 12^c. asked.
Potatoes, new, 35c per bushel asked.
Blackberries, $4.0w@4.50 per case of 2
quarts.
Blueberries, $2.00@2.25 per bu.
MINNKAI'OI.IS.
WHEAT—August and September offered
at S3c October sold at S3£(£82% No 1
Northern, October, 77}J(«)72.
Fi.oru—Patents, $4". 50(^475 straights,
$4.20(^4.40: first bakers, $3.40@3.75 second
bakers', $3.lK)(a!4.25.
CHICAGO.
Wheat, August 79^ Sept. 80 Oct. 82}^.
Corn, August 43%. Sept. 43%.
Oats, August 25 Wept. 24%.
Flax seed No 1, $1,18.
Pork, August, $8,65 @8,75 Sept. $8,72^
(iAS,75.
Live Stock, Cattle $4.50@T 0 Hogs
$4.20rtg4.«0 Sheep, $2.00($4.25.
MILWAUKEE.
Wheat-No. 3, Sep"* ?J%c Oct.
78.
DULUTH.
Wheat—No. I hard cash, 83%c Sep
tember 83c October 84.
"As Good as New."
arc the woi'ds used by a lady, who was
at one time given up by the most emi­
nent physicians, and left to die. Re­
duced to a mere skeleton, pale and hag­
gard, not able to
leave
TRANSCBIPT.
her bed, from
all those distressing diseases peculiar
to suffering females, such as displace­
ment, leueorrhKa, inflammation, etc.,
ete. She began taking Dr. Pierce's
"Favorite Prescription" and ahso us­
ing the local treatments recommended
by him, and is now. she says, "as good
as new.1' Price reduced to one dollar.
By druggists.
Why Old Violins Have the Richest Tones.
One of the principal reasons why old
violins are so superior to modern ones,
lies in the fact that the secret of the old
varnishes is lost. The fact that the old
gum-amber, obtained from the interior
of Africa, and the transparent dragon's
blood, the chief ingredients of the old
varnish, are no longer procurable, may
be a cause for this. On this matter,
however, critics differ. The chief
reason, however, is, that as time goes
on. the resinous matter is gradually
shaken out of the pores fibers of the
wood and drops below into the hollow,
owing to the vibration. The sap
becomes honcy-combed, and conse­
quently more porous, light and elastic
The number of vibrations in a given
time is increased, the vibrations also
harmonized and unified, and thus the
mellowness and intensity of sound is
augmented, the original roughness and
harshness is smoothed away, and the
violin becomes more deliciously sonor­
ous.—[New York Star.
It Knock* the Spots,"
up
)ia-
and everything in the nature of ern
tions,blotches, pimples, ulcers* scrof
lous aumors, and incipient consumption,
which is nothing more nor less than
scrofula of the lungs, completely out of
the system. It stimulates and in­
vigorates the liver, tones up the stom­
ach, regulates the bowels, purifies the
blood, and builds np the weak places
of the body. It is a purely vegetable
compound, and will do more than is
claimed for it. We refer to Dr.
Fierce's "Golden Medical Discovery,
A Large Mortgage.
(Prom the St. Panl Daily Globe Aug. 22.)
On Thursday a mortgage of $20,000
was filed from the Pioneer Press com­
pany to the Clarke institute for deaf
mutes in Massachusetts. The mortgage
is given on the buildings and the
ground leased by the Pioneer Press.
Two Bear Stories.
Joseph Gilbert, the superintendent of
the great farming operations of the
Laguna ranch, recently discovered a
large cinnamon bear in one of the cor
raL* of the ranch occupied by a band of
mules. Bruin had evidently regaled
himself on some young pigs and gone
into the mule corral to get a drink of
water. While Mr. Gilbert was gone to
the house to get a rifle to shoot the bear,
the mules became offended at the
stranger and struck at him right and
left and all other ways known to an
active and earnest mule. The heaviest
battalions were on the side of the mules,
and when Mr. Gilbert returned the
bear had climbed a tree to escape their
fury. It was then discovered that his
bearship had a short chain attached to
him, and on the presumption that some­
body had lost a bear the workmen on
the ranch climbed another tree near by
and with a riata lassoed the brute and
brought him down to terra lirma.—
[Los Angeles Herald.
Sure enough, there were two bears
•(which afterward proved to bo an old
she and a nearly full-grown cub) travel­
ing up the bottom of the valley, much
too far for us to shoot. Grasping our
rifles and throwing off our hats, we
started off as hard as wo could run diag­
onally doivn the hillside, so as to cut
them ofT. It was some little time be­
fore they saw us, when they made oft
at a lumbering gallop up the valley.
It would seem impossible to run into two
grizzlies in the open, but they were go­
ing up hill and we down, aud moreover,
the old one kept stopping. The cub
would forge ahead and could probably
have escaped us. but the mother now
and then stopped to sit down on her
haunches and look around at us, when
the cub would run back to her. The
upshot was that we got aiiead of them,
when they turned and went straight up
one hillside as we ran down the other
behind them. Hy this time I was pretty
nearly done out, for running along the
steep ground, through the sage brush,
was most exhausting work and Merri
lield kept gaining on me and was well
in front, .fust as he disappeared over
a bank, almost at the bottom of the val­
ley, I tripped over a bush and fell full
length. When I got up I knew I could
never make ,ip tho ground I had lost,
and beside could hardly run anv longer.
Merritield was out of sight below, and
tlic bears were laboring up the steep
hillside directly opposite and about .'100
yards off so I sat down aud began to
shoot over Merritield\s head, aiming at
the big bear. She was going very
steadily and in a straight line, ami each
bullet sent, up a pull' of dust where it
struck the dry soil, so that! could keep
directing my aim and the fourth ball
crashed into the old bear's llank. She
lurched heavily forward, but recovered
herself and reached the timber, While
Merritield, who had put on a spurt, was
not far behind.
I toiled up the hill at a sort of trot,
fairly gasping and sobbing for breath
but before I got to the top I heard a
couple of shots and a shout. The old
bear had turned as soon as Jshe was in
the timber ami come tow art! Merri field
but he gave her the death wound by
tiring into her chest, and then shot at
the young one, knocking it over. When
I came he was just walking toward the
latter to finish it with the revolver, but
it suddenly jumped up as lively as ever
and made off at a great pace—for it
was nearly half grown. It was impossi­
ble to fire when the tree trunks were so
thick, but here was a small opening
across which it would have to pass, anl
collecting all my energies I made a last
run, got into position and covered the
opening with my rifle. The instant
the bear appeared I fired, and it turned
a dozen somersaults downhill, rolling
over and over the ball had struck it
near the tail and had ranged forward
through the hollow of the body. Each
of us had thus given the fatal wound to
the bear into which the other had lired
the first bullet.—[Century.
Girls in Austria.
Up to fifteen years of age Austrian
girls arc kept at their studies, but are
not deprived of society. They dress
very simply, rarely wearing a silk
gown until the day they leave the
school-room for the ball-room. After
they leave school they go through a
year's or even two years' teaching in
the pantry and in the kitchen under
some member of the family, or even,
in some cases, in another family, under
trained eooks. They may never be re­
quired to cook a dinner, but they are
thus rendered independent of cooks
and servants, as they learn how to do
everything themselves long before they
begin housekeeping on their own ac­
count. When married they are most
affectionate wives and mothers. An
Austrian lady, in fact, is as accom­
plished and learned as an English gov­
erness, as good a housekeeper and
cook as a German, as witty and viva­
cious in society as a Parisian, as pas­
sionate as an Italian, and as handsome
as an American, some of the most
beautiful women in Europe being found
in Vienna. Germans and also Aus
trians are celebrated for their stocks
of linen. Hence, as soon as a girl is
born, the weaving of her linen is be­
gun, and every year apiece or a certain
number of yards is set aside for^ her
trousseau, ready for her marriage
Grandmammas on their side are not
idle. They pass their time knitting
for their grandchildren, supplying not
only their wants, but also laying aside
for the future a dozen dozens of stock­
ings of every kind, being the usual num­
ber of any bride's trousseau, and some
of these knitted stockings are as fine as
the finest woven ones. An Austrian
girl or lady is never, I may say, seen
without some kind of work in her
band.—American Register.
No Place Like Home.
If ever a country was beautiful, that
country is Kansas at the present time
Trees loaded with budding fruit, wheat
and srraa» waving in the gentle breezes
—rich green carpet covering undulating
field 200 miles wide, 400 miles long its
foundation the center of the earth, its
dome the sky, and itself the center of
attraction for all eyes not only on this,
but on the Eastern Continent.—Bur­
den, Ks. Eagle.
Coffee milk (for the sick room).
—Boil a dessert-spoonful of ground
coffee, in nearly a pint of milk, a quar­
ter of an hour then put into it a shav­
ing or two of isinglass, aad clear it let
it Boil a few minutes, and set it by the
side of the fire to clarify. This is a very
fine breakfast it should be sweetened
with sugar of good quality.
-THE
BESTTOKK,?
This medicine, oomblnthf Iron irithlpbre
vegetable tonics, outekly and fttapmely
Cares DTtp#|Mi«, fadlgeatlaa* WeakaCM,
1
Moure Blood, Malar
la,CktlleaMl Fevers,
ana Neuralgia.
Ifrift*
It I* an unfailing: remedy tor Diseases of tho
Pisesfes
esd Sedentary lives.
mar
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It i* invaluable for Dii
Womea. and all who 1
peculiar to
It does not injure the teeth, cause hoadache.or
produce conttl pa tion—otAer Iron medicine* do.
It enriches purifies the blood, stimulates
the appetite, aids the aailullation of
lieves Heartburn and Belching, and rtrength
ens the muscles and nerves.
For Intermittent Fevers. Lassitude, Lack of
Energy, Ac., it hM no equal.
49* The genuine has above trade mark and
crossed red lines on wrapper. Take no other.
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CLOTHING.
CLOTHING!
AND (TOODS FOR
Men's, Youths, Boys' and
Children's Wear.
In fine, medium and low-priced fabric*. I offer
the Urgent Ktock of the beet
Ready-Made Clothing
XVKit KXIIIRITBD IN THIS CITY,
Adapted to all purposes and at loweot r«*U
Prices. My tiooU are
Better Mmle, Cut,
Trimmed and Finished
Than aro to be found elsewhere. This I guar­
antee. AIKO a fine lino of
GENTS' FURNISHING MS!
Hats and Caps, Trunks and Valises.
An inxpection of my atock is respectfully
solicited.
R. DUNKELMANN,
THE OLIOTHIHJR.
New store, comer Main and Bridge streets
opposite Klrnt National Bank, Austin, Minn.
trt-ly
SADDLERY.
& GUINEY,
AUSTIN, MINN.,
Manufacturers and Dealers in
HAKNESS! SADDLES!
Horse Collars,
Trnnksand Whips!
to.. Ac., Ac., Ac., Ac.
RKPAIK1NG neatly and cheaply dono. All
work warranted.
NEW nniCK STOUK, MAIM STRKKT.
DRUGS, &C.
D0BR & W0ID,
PRESCRIPTION
DRUGGISTS!
AND DKALKH* IN
STATIONERY, BOOKS!
AC., AC., AC.
AUSTIN, MINN.
Jon20
PAINTING..
OLSON & MALMBERG,
AUSTIN, MINN
House, Carriage and
Sign
FA.I3STTI1TC3
PAPER HANGING,
Kalsoimning and Frescoing!
Special attention given to Graining in Imita­
tion of Woods, and to inside work generally.
WILUAM OMOH,
M. NALMIIKRU.
MEAT AMD. FISH.
A. FHIEDRIGH,
CityHeatMarket
Tbe largest and best fitted op Market In the
city, two doors east of First National Bank.
Fresh aid Meats of All Kills!
Dre*«el
ud tl*« Poultry,
Freeh md Salted F1*H,
8SBMC«I MTE., ete.
Wild Game in Season.
LUMBER, &C.
DUMBER YARD.
a B. W00DSUM,
Lath, ghingles, Doors, Bash!
Blinds, Buildings, Paper, &e.
Also sells Geo. W. Pitkin A Co.'a Beady Mixed
Paints.
Tnm CASS. YABI N*A» D*ROR.
WBOTtlmiMlECETAIUPai*
LIVER
And all Bilious Complaint*
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